(CNN) — The Taliban have made further territorial gains in Afghanistan over the past day, capturing two strategic border crossings just days after the hasty departure of US combat troops from the country. One of the crossings that have fallen to the Taliban is in the town of Islam Qala in the north-western province of Herat and […]
BUNKER HILL, Ind. — Six inmates placed in solitary at the state prison in Miami County are suing over what they charge are substandard conditions there. The American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana says past prisoners broke the lone window in the solitary cells, and instead of fixing it, the prison put sheet metal over […]
GREENCASTLE, Ind. (WISH) — The Indiana State Police regularly receives reports of scam phone calls, but they’re not usually scams that involve impersonating police officers. The Indiana State Police Putnamville Post said on Thursday that they have received numerous reports of a scammer posing as an Indiana State Police trooper calling individuals and claiming that […]
A gas station clerk has been charged with murder, for fatally shooting a shoplifter.
STATEWIDE–Much of Indiana is expected to get scattered rain and thunderstorms Thursday with temperatures and humidity dropping into the weekend. All but the far northwestern portion of the state is under a “marginal risk” for severe weather. A marginal risk means isolated severe storms are possible, with the threat of isolated damaging winds, small hail, […]
INDIANAPOLIS — People on unemployment in Indiana are going to have to wait a bit to get their extra benefits once again. The state is not yet paying the extra 300 dollars that are part of the enhanced federal unemployment program. An Indianapolis judge last month ordered the state to start making those payments again, but Governor Holcomb’s […]
(CNN) — Tokyo venues for the pandemic-delayed Tokyo 2020 Olympics will not have spectators due to the city’s coronavirus state of emergency through the Games, according to the Japanese Olympic Committee. The announcement was made following a meeting of five Olympic and Japanese government groups responsible for the Games. Japanese Olympic Committee President Seiko Hashimoto said due to the […]
(CNN) — Two Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agents and one Chicago police officer were shot while they were in a car early Wednesday, Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown said. They suffered non-life-threatening injuries, said Brown. One of the ATF agents was shot in the hand, the other was hit in the side/torso/arm […]
(CNN) — The Delta variant, a more transmissible and possibly more dangerous strain of coronavirus, now makes up more than half of all new Covid-19 infections in the US, according to estimates from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Delta accounts for 51.7% of new infections in the US, according to the CDC. […]
LEBANON, Ind.–A man from Bloomington was arrested for being involved in what police are calling a “road rage incident” on I-65. Police in Lebanon say they were called to I-65 southbound near State Road 47 on a report that shots had been fired from one car at a pickup truck. Craig Jones III, 19, of […]
